38 Flashcards
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A pipe or channel built to carry water over a long distance
Aqueducts
The name for the eastern Roman Empire located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it lasted from about 500 to 1453 C.E
Byzantine Empire
To separate into smaller pieces
Dissolved
The language originally spoken in Ancient Rome on which many words in modern languages are bases.
Latin
The concept that there is a universal order built into nature that can guide moral thinking
Natural law
A person who promotes artistic activities by paying for the new works and supporting artists
Patron
A great flowering of culture based on classical Greek and Roman ideas that began in Italy around 1300 and spread throughout Europe
Renaissance
A philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Rome and that focused on devolving virtue self control and courage as a way to achieve happiness
Stoicism
To move from one person or place to another
Transfer
A large monument in the shape of an arch that celebrates a leader or a military victory
Triumphal arch
Similarly many people today believe that all humans have WHAT? that no written law can take away
Basic rights
Romulus Augustus lost his WHAT to a Germanic leader odoacer
Throne
The. The western half of the empire dissolved into separate kingdoms ruled by WAHT
Different tribes
Many of these people settled inside the WHAT and were recruited into the army however these soldiers often had little loyalty to WGAT
Empire Rome
The revolutionized engineering as well as architecture. They were the greatest builders of Rhodes branches and Aquaduct in theWHAT
Accident world
Popular of the United States when Americans imitated to give their artWHAT
Dignity and nobility
For example, many statues in the capital WAHT reflected, strong Roman influence
Washington D.c
In the east the empire continued for another WHAT WHAT
1,000 years
Today we call this eastern empire the WHAT WHAT after Byzantium the original name of its capital city
Byzantine empire
Languages developed from Latin, including Italian WAHT AND WHAT
Spinach’s French
one popular art form was the WHAT a raised and carved portrait of a persons head or a carved scene
CAMEO
The huge size of the empire made it difficult to WHAT. by the 300s germanic tribes were pressing hatd from the west as the threat of Persians was growing in the WHAT
Defend east
Were the first to make widespread use of concrete, which they made by mixing WAHT AND WHAT with sand, cement and water and then allowing the mixture to harden
Broken stone
Judges in roaming courts attempted to make just or fair decisions that respected WHAT
Individual rights